PCMag Live 04/23/14: Supreme Court Conflicted Over Aereo & HBO/Amazon Team Up

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Published Oct 6, 2020

PCMag Live for Wednesday, April 23, 2014 is hosted by Alex Colon and Dan Costa.

In our Headline News segment, the potential TV-disrupting Aereo is in front of the Supreme Court and the Court appears conflicted over the case. Aereo allows users to rent a OTA antenna that will capture broadcast television channels. Aereo then transmits these channels over the Internet to your home for $8-$10 a month. This could be a way for people that can't get good broadcast reception to get "free" channels. Problem is, broadcasters want Aereo to pay the same retransmission fees that cable companies pay.

Also in the news, HBO and Amazon are teaming up to offer programming for Amazon Prime Instant Video. To be clear -- Amazon Prime users are not getting free access to HBO Go. The programming available will be older shows that have ended and they will be available for free to Prime subscribers. Time to see if The Sopranos holds up after all these years. We can tell you that The Wire in fact does.

Akamai just released its latest State of the Internet Report which is based on the fourth quarter of 2013. The good news is that internet is getting faster, but the bad news is that it's more open to attack than ever. Dan and Alex pick apart the data and drop some fun facts.

Today's Reader Question is from Abraham via an email "I've heard all this talk about WhatsApp but I don't know anybody who uses it. Is it something I should be using?" The answer may shock you!

The One Cool Thing is the new One Plus One phone. One Plus is a new Chinese phone manufacturer headed up by a former Oppo VP. The One Plus One sports Galaxy S 5 level specs for a fraction of the cost.

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